page_title: Dadabhai Naoroji Road
section_title: Heritage buildings along the road
hierarchical_section_title: Dadabhai Naoroji Road / Heritage buildings along the road
caption_attribution_description: The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai - India. Shot on Nikon D70s Arguably the most imposing structure in South Mumbai, it is today the headquarters of the Central Railway. Figures of "progress" and "prosperity" jostle with a variety of sculptures depicting animals and birds.
context_page_description: Dadabhai Naoroji Road, a North–South commercial artery road, in the Fort business district in South Mumbai of Maharashtra, India, is the nerve centre of the city, starting from the Crawford Market, linking Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, leads to the Flora Fountain at the southern end of the road. This entire stretch of the road is studded with Neo–Classical and Gothic Revival buildings and parks built in the 19th century, intermingled with modern office buildings and commercial establishments.
  D.N.Road, a simple street within the Mumbai Fort, it was broadened into an avenue in the 1860s.
  With the objective of protecting the 19th century streetscape, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority launched a conservation project titled "Dadabhai Naoroji Road Heritage Streetscape Project" and implemented it successfully for which the MMRDA received the prestigious "UNESCO's Asia–Pacific Heritage Award of Merit", in the year 2004.
context_section_description: Apart from the Crawford Market at the northern end and the Flora Fountain, with Dadabhai Naoroji's statue overlooking the fountain at its southern end, the "Mile Long" street displays the following famous heritage buildings: 
  The Victoria Terminus, designed by Frederick William Stevens, initially named in honour of the then Queen and Empress Victoria, in 1887. It was renamed as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in 1996, and then Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in 2018. The Terminus connects with the Crawford Market, and is the headquarters of the Central Railway. Its architecture depicts figurines of "progress" and "prosperity" with a variety of sculpted animals and birds. It is said that the St Pancras station in London bears some similarity to the Victoria Terminus. The traditional Indian palace architecture is also reflected in its beautiful stone dome, turrets, pointed arches and eccentric ground plan. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. Every day, the Terminus pours out a phenomenal number of pedestrians into the D.N.Road. 
  The Crawford Market (pictured in infobox), renamed as "Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai", located at the start of the D.N.Road, is a blend of Flemish and Norman architecture with a bas–relief built of coarse Coorla rubble, relieved by bright red stone from Bassein. It depicts Indian peasants in wheat fields just above the main entrance. The friezes on the outside and the fountains inside were designed by Lockwood Kipling, father of the novelist Rudyard Kipling.
  The Municipal Corporation headquarters or the Bombay Municipal Corporation Building (BMC) was designed as V–shaped structure in the Gothic Revival style of architecture by the British architect F W Stevens and built in 1893, subsequent to Lord Ripon, the Viceroy of India initiating the project in 1884. Notable features of the building are its 255 ft (77.7 m) tall tower with the central dome, rising to a height of 71.5 m (234.6 ft).
  Times of India building, founded as "The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce" in 1838 is located opposite to the Victoria Terminus, a heritage structure which houses offices of the Times of India news paper. The structure, which was subject to aggressive marine environment of Mumbai since 1901, has undergone many structural and architectural modifications.
  Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art (J.J.School of Art), established in 1857 is the oldest art institution in India and as a University awards bachelor's degree in fine art and culture and master's degree in fine arts.
  The J. N. Petit Library is at a vantage location at the corner plot at the junction of D.N. Road, P.M. Road and Napier Road. The building is named after its donor Sir Jamshetjee Nesserwanjee Petit and it was designed by architect Merwanjee Bana and built in 1898. It has undergone renovation in recent years with funds donated by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust to the library.
  Vatcha Agiary, Parsi fire temple located north of Flora Fountain on the Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji Road, was built in 1881. It has an Art Deco–style featuring carvings in a distinctly Assyrian style.
  The road is also a veritable sprawling city hub which is lined by banks, book, shoe and clothes shops in the city's stock market district and commercial Fort area.
caption: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is a UNESCO World heritage Site
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